All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.